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DUNGEON SIEGE: IN THE NAME OF THE KING: AN EPIC ADVENTURE BEGINS, PART I: THE BEGINNING Test-Screens In The Valley!

Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

I was at a comic book shop near my house the other day when I saw they were handing out passes for this. I tried to ask my writing partner if he wanted to go, but I couldn’t keep a straight face long enough to pull it off.

A nearly three hour long film by Uwe Boll? I think I’d rather just get in the ring and let the pinhead beat on me a bit. It’d be quicker, and I wouldn’t have to sit through another bored Burt Reynolds performance.

Seriously... is anyone actually anticipating this one?

Hello,

FuturamaFan1987 here with another review!

*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD*

I went to a screening of In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale at the Winnetka, so I figured I'd share my own thoughts about this particular abo-----I mean movie. As everyone knows, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is a movie by the master of crap Uwe Boll. So far, his movies range from crap, to explosive diarrhea. So, why did I even bother to see his next movie? Well, it was free. Besides, a movie with Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and Ron Perlman can't be that bad, right? Right? Shit.

So, In The Name Of The Long Ass Title is about a farmer, cleverly named Farmer (Statham), who's village is attacked by some creatures commanded by Gallian(Liotta), who controls them through a weird swirling vortex, that strangely looks like a flushing toilet. Farmer's wife and her exploding cleavage is captured and his son is transformed into a burrito. Okay,okay, he was killed, but during the burial scene, it looked like Farmer wrapped the poor dead kid in a giant tortilla, but I digress. So, while he's swearing vengeance, meanwhile, Burt Reynolds is being plotted against by his nephew, played by Mathew Lillard who, no offense, looked totally drunk during this movie. I sympathize with him at this point. Meanhwile again, Farmer, Merrick(Perlman), and Some Random Dude(Some Random Dude) go on a quest to find his wife, and kill Gallian and his toilet flush of doom. Along the way, they encounter rejects from Circus Du Sole lead by Kristana Loken which serves no purpose to the plot other than show off their crappy effects. So, all the good guys team up for a bunch of epically lame battles with the retarded creatures, who are so dumb, they light themselves on fire to be used as catapult bait. Oh, and something about John Rhys Davis and Leelee Sobieski doing magic, but I stopped caring around the 30 minute mark.

So, lets get this out of the way. This movie blows. Hard. I mean extremely hard. So hard, that I hope it destroys Uwe Balls career. If this doesn't put that nail in the coffin, I don't know what will. He managed to take a 60 million dollar budget, and still make it look like shit. He had 150 minutes at his disposal, yet developed no one. He had a bunch of pretty good actors, and turned them into jokes. The only ones to come out of this unscathed is Statham, Perlman, and Davis who are pretty okay in this. Liotta and Reynolds get it the worst. Liotta seems to pretend that he didn't have a career and just completely ham it up to an infinite degree. Reynolds just looked like he didn't want to be here, so much so, that he wears a t-shirt during his *SPOILER BUT I DON'T CARE!* death scene. Lillard looks completely shit-faced and everyone else is just there for set dressing. Also, characters completely disappear during the movie. Something Mr. Boll has a talent for (Billy Zane in Bloodrayne anyone?) Poor Loken is left behind from the final battle, so she goes off to be in a failed Sci-Fi Channel series. Lillard is also left behind after his big fight scene, with no hint of his fate. *Sigh*

So the film pretty much ends like you expect it to end. Farmer is attacked by books, and Gallian gets stabbed by Farmer's wife, giving Farmer the edge to kill him. Gallian dies, and the monsters he controlled walk off to jump off a cliff or something. Farmer and wife kiss, and Uwe Bolls name pops up like it means something. Cue boos and me writing down "Poor" on the screening paper.

So, when this film comes out, don't see it. In The Name Of The King: Don't See This Movie!!!

This is FuturamaFan1987 telling you, that if you see this movie, bad things will happen.

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Wait till you see Postal!!
by tmifune78
Nov 5th, 2007
12:37:03 AM
R WE REALLY SURISED???
by billybobhoyle
Nov 5th, 2007
12:37:04 AM
FUCK!!!!
by billybobhoyle
Nov 5th, 2007
12:37:29 AM
How could this miss?
by Pound Sand
Nov 5th, 2007
12:44:02 AM
Has Uwe Bol
by Mixiboi
Nov 5th, 2007
12:47:10 AM
sounds awesome
by The Real MiraJeff
Nov 5th, 2007
12:48:19 AM
I almost
by ApneicMonkey
Nov 5th, 2007
01:28:04 AM
Let Boll direct Marion Cobretti.
by hamslime
Nov 5th, 2007
01:34:50 AM
PLANT!
by bigbaldpapa
Nov 5th, 2007
01:42:34 AM
Giant Burritos. Exploding Cleavage. Burt Reynolds.
by Alonzo Mosely
Nov 5th, 2007
01:48:26 AM
After watching Bloodrayne, I don't think I could sit thru this
by George Newman
Nov 5th, 2007
01:59:27 AM
We got rid of Saddam...
by UltimaRex
Nov 5th, 2007
02:04:13 AM
What the hell happend to Postal?
by Mike_D
Nov 5th, 2007
02:33:05 AM
Boll is terrible.... BUT:
by Jarek
Nov 5th, 2007
02:33:17 AM
"So the film pretty much ends...
by xavier masterson
Nov 5th, 2007
02:58:23 AM
That's the best review.....
by D o o d
Nov 5th, 2007
03:31:06 AM
Seriously? A bad Uwe Boll movie?
by spud mcspud
Nov 5th, 2007
03:33:10 AM
Postal
by ImMorganFreeman
Nov 5th, 2007
03:34:29 AM
Books are the villains?
by MattmanReturns
Nov 5th, 2007
03:35:26 AM
I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS
by aicndoesntwantmorecowbell
Nov 5th, 2007
03:40:53 AM
I'm in awe of Boll for all the wrong reasons...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
Nov 5th, 2007
04:04:51 AM
boll spends all of the fuckin money on a few semi big actors
by aicndoesntwantmorecowbell
Nov 5th, 2007
04:14:15 AM
Sounds wonderful.
by Knuckleduster
Nov 5th, 2007
05:17:16 AM
who knows? the reviewer's a moron
by Teko
Nov 5th, 2007
06:26:33 AM
The previews for this thing look hilarious.
by rbatty024
Nov 5th, 2007
06:55:44 AM
Boll Bashers!
by Super Rabbi
Nov 5th, 2007
07:54:20 AM
the next great cult classic!
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
08:20:12 AM
Finally!
by Purgatori
Nov 5th, 2007
08:32:19 AM
You've gotta hand it to Boll though...
by HueyFreeman
Nov 5th, 2007
09:13:55 AM
I'm more surprised that Russell Mulchay still makes movies
by judderman
Nov 5th, 2007
09:17:14 AM
if you thought LOTD:ROTK was a long acronym,
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
09:20:15 AM
Explosive Diarehea..
by mitemike
Nov 5th, 2007
09:37:25 AM
Line from House of the Dead...
by I Dunno
Nov 5th, 2007
09:54:23 AM
"his son gets turned into a burrito..."
by Datascream
Nov 5th, 2007
10:02:32 AM
Uwe would be better off
by veritasses
Nov 5th, 2007
10:04:32 AM
AND BLOODRAYNE IS HILARIOUS
by aicndoesntwantmorecowbell
Nov 5th, 2007
10:04:37 AM
Explosive diarrhea...
by Darth Macchio
Nov 5th, 2007
10:05:41 AM
If you're discouraging people...
by DocPazuzu
Nov 5th, 2007
10:24:04 AM
When I read the title...
by dr sauch
Nov 5th, 2007
10:36:34 AM
boll sets up actors w/ hos - takes photos
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
10:43:29 AM
"his son gets turned into a burrito..."
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
10:47:23 AM
zom-bot.com
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
10:50:32 AM
dis it not kebab pert one teebee!
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
10:55:52 AM
that includes Turkey and Kazakhstan and america
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
11:26:53 AM
i think this Boll shit has gone on long enough...
by BMacSmith
Nov 5th, 2007
11:33:45 AM
Im not a Uwe Boll apologist
by kilik777
Nov 5th, 2007
11:34:17 AM
maybe it's all a joke on us
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
11:40:08 AM
I'm going to go ahead and assume Lillard wasn't the
by Kurzinski Valentine
Nov 5th, 2007
12:18:16 PM
How does he get these AAA actors?
by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz
Nov 5th, 2007
12:36:46 PM
Beating up critics makes your films good!
by MattmanReturns
Nov 5th, 2007
01:23:36 PM
Mr Saxon
by DocPazuzu
Nov 5th, 2007
01:49:58 PM
He beat up MiraJeff?
by DocPazuzu
Nov 5th, 2007
01:50:41 PM
sequels?
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
01:51:26 PM
wait wait wait...
by aicndoesntwantmorecowbell
Nov 5th, 2007
01:58:40 PM
hold on... that's not really the title is it?
by turketron
Nov 5th, 2007
02:15:49 PM
The scariest part of the movie's title: "Part I"
by Prof. Pop-Cult
Nov 5th, 2007
02:25:43 PM
real name
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
02:27:59 PM
Yo come on! Dont any of you people want to see this film in a MS
by Rogue_Leader
Nov 5th, 2007
02:29:29 PM
I meant to say "MST3K sort of way" above.
by Rogue_Leader
Nov 5th, 2007
02:37:01 PM
I meant to say "MST3K sort of way" above.
by Rogue_Leader
Nov 5th, 2007
02:37:03 PM
uwe boll + burt reynolds i'd pay to see
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
02:39:24 PM
norm macdonald
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
02:40:49 PM
wizards and warriors (NES)
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
02:49:18 PM
I'm convinced he's a joke director, not real
by performingmonkey
Nov 5th, 2007
03:03:49 PM
In fairness to Uwe Boll...
by palimpsest
Nov 5th, 2007
03:09:52 PM
www.inthenameoftheking.com
by zom-bot.com
Nov 5th, 2007
03:28:26 PM
everyone in here will watch this one and you know it
by greekCopter
Nov 5th, 2007
03:40:22 PM
dis it not kebab pert one teebee!
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
04:09:58 PM
german peeps love to inflict sadness.
by ironic_name
Nov 5th, 2007
04:12:32 PM
Its like my grammy used to tell me
by kelli_picklers_cooter
Nov 5th, 2007
05:37:11 PM
I thought this was one of those Zucker bros. parodies
by Bobo_Vision
Nov 5th, 2007
07:21:18 PM
I'm in it for the Ching Siu-Tung choreography
by Harry Weinstein
Nov 5th, 2007
07:25:24 PM
I MUST SEE THIS FILM
by Mullah Omar
Nov 5th, 2007
11:57:39 PM
UWE BOLL IS A GENIOUS
by chris2million1
Nov 6th, 2007
02:02:04 AM
Is this movie worst than Eragon
by CuervoJones
Nov 6th, 2007
02:22:55 AM
Boll is a bad director, but a great producer
by CuervoJones
Nov 6th, 2007
02:43:57 AM
"UWE BOLL IS A GENIOUS"
by aicndoesntwantmorecowbell
Nov 6th, 2007
05:31:45 AM
Damn it, I have to see this now
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
06:22:17 AM
Lost Jarv
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
06:39:57 AM
the filmic love that dares not speak it's name
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
07:27:00 AM
also Doc-
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
07:31:20 AM
We should thank Uwe Boll.
by orionazul
Nov 6th, 2007
07:31:28 AM
Another thought. . .
by orionazul
Nov 6th, 2007
07:40:11 AM
press junket? interviews?
by zom-bot.com
Nov 6th, 2007
08:12:20 AM
I've read another review and it seems Krug is in it!
by Stalin vs Predator
Nov 6th, 2007
09:03:45 AM
rereading the interview
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
09:32:22 AM
As an actor
by carpetofstars
Nov 6th, 2007
09:56:04 AM
AhHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
10:32:51 AM
Lost Jarv
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
10:35:55 AM
It's more of a sibilant whisper for me
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
10:42:46 AM
Lost Jarv
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
10:44:52 AM
I had to see the Uwe fights for myself
by Bobo_Vision
Nov 6th, 2007
10:46:09 AM
and Doc
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
10:49:20 AM
unlucky man, unlucky
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
10:51:25 AM
Bobo-
by Lost Jarv
Nov 6th, 2007
10:53:24 AM
Fucking hell, Jarv...
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
11:35:14 AM
As for MiraJeff...
by DocPazuzu
Nov 6th, 2007
11:36:35 AM
The only Boll film I've seen any of
by Mattyboy122
Nov 6th, 2007
03:52:18 PM
i like to think i know a thing or two about the talkbacks
by aestheticity
Nov 6th, 2007
06:01:50 PM
Boll is a cool guy
by s0nicdeathmonkey
Nov 6th, 2007
06:51:46 PM
Part 1: The Beginning
by 5 by 5
Nov 6th, 2007
07:02:12 PM
I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT!
by WONKABAR
Nov 6th, 2007
09:09:00 PM
Bay, Wiseman, and Anderson are worse
by Gozu
Nov 6th, 2007
10:43:38 PM
A painfull viewing
by warocketajax
Nov 7th, 2007
01:54:27 AM
Doc
by Lost Jarv
Nov 7th, 2007
04:08:49 AM
Right, Jarv...
by DocPazuzu
Nov 7th, 2007
05:54:53 AM
There were 3 things that may have redeemed that film
by Lost Jarv
Nov 7th, 2007
07:45:08 AM

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